Quotes About Creativity

I write and walk and swim and drink.

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.

I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.

I feel like I've got this great catalogue of songs sink or swim, it doesn't matter. If you've got that, you've got a lot.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

I've got loads of ideas swimming round, and I've even organised them in a nice folder on me computer.

Dad would always play Ray Charles in the car on the way to swimming, then we'd sing musicals. Now my heroes are Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt and Max Richter.

Grandaddy always had Hank playing out in the garage. I heard it so much I just started singing. It was like jumping in a pool. You just start swimming.

I always loved pretending I was a fish or a mermaid while swimming in my grandparents' pool.

I love swimming, and when I'm choreographing something I'm in the studio dancing all day, every day.

In the early Seventies, I bought a dilapidated hotel in north Stoke for about £100,000 and spent the same amount again renovating it, putting in a guitar-shaped swimming pool, painting the bathrooms purple, and installing gold dolphin taps.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.

I have the Skinny Dippers swimsuit line coming out, which I'm really proud of and very excited to do.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

A lot of the lyrics I write involve images that just swing the song in a way that feels really good to me and there isn't a literal explanation. They're not riddles for the listener to solve.

Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

I'll do a cappella stuff, rock 'n' roll and swing stuff.